Parliamentary Service

Political Party Activity

Liberal Party. Vice-president of Liberal Association 1913, elected as National; voted independently, stood as an Independent in 1930.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Grazier. Educated at Cooerwull Academy, Lithgow; member of pastoralist family owning Kinross, Billabong, Hillside, Clifton stations in Holbrook district, others near Inverell, Coleambally, Harden, Hay and Macquarie Fields; worked on Kinross; when Ross Brothers' partnership dissolved in 1913, became a manager for father; with brothers brought out father in 1921, lived on Kanimbla, part of the original Kinross station, from 1919; councillor at Albury Grammar School in 1929, Presbyterian Ladies College., Goulburn 1923 - 1924, Scots College., Sydney 1925 - 1931; member of Farmers and Settlers Association 1900; guest at coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11; member of Trusteeship committee of New South Wales Presbyterian church.

Local Government Activity

Personal

Son of John Ross, farmer and grazier, and Emily Jane White. Married Rita Bell Mitchell on 12 April 1919 and had issue, 4 daughters and 1 son. Funeral at Wagga Wagga crematorium from Knox Presbyterian church in Holbrook.